The characters in this play
attempt to solve the puzzle behind the death of a female Vietnamese migrant
that occurred 10 years prior.

Trần Thanh Lan came to Korea
in January, 2008 as a marriage migrant but was forced to divorce 5 days later.
While waiting for the divorce to be settled, she fell to her death from her
apartment under unknown circumstances.

The death of Trần Thanh Lan
caused uproar in Vietnam as her body was cremated without the consent of her
family, sent to Vietnam by air cargo, and delivered to her mother via the local
courier service. Her mother went to Korea to demand that the police investigate
the true circumstances behind her daughter's death, but the police closed the
case without conducting a proper investigation.

<#Statute of
Limitations> is the result of 2 years of investigative research into some of
the questions surrounding the incident following a visit in 2016 to Trần Thanh
Lan's mother, Huỳnh Kim
Anh, in Can Tho, Vietnam by playwright and producer, Kyongju Park.

The performance criticizes
the fact that the initial investigation by the police at the time of Trần Thanh
Lan's death 10 years ago was insufficient and failed to reveal the cause of her
death as the sites and evidence that should have been preserved immediately
after the incident had disappeared. Kyongju Park brings an investigation of the
suspect-site to the modern stage. Video records relating to the incident and
video recordings of interviews with the people directly involved are used in
the performance.

2018 is the year that the
statute of limitations of the suspects behind the death of Trần Thanh Lan
expires.

In the words of Kyongju
Park,

"Today, the suspects
may be free, but Korean society is not free from its sense of debt to the
deceased for failing to unearth the truth. It is my hope to bring peace to the
soul of Trần Thanh Lan through this performance."

Plot

The police and chorus are
preparing for an investigation together with the victim, Trần Thanh Lan. While
laying out the evidence necessary for an investigation, the hidden stories of
Trần Thanh Lan unfold. As the performance comes to conclusion, the sirens of
police cars and an ambulance can be heard... Will the police be able to succeed
in uncovering the crime committed by the suspect and bring him to the site of
investigation? This work causes the audience to creatively fill in the missing
pieces with an open ending.